Email List Building

An action packed day today at the WOMBAT conference.  The highlight was probably the keynote by Naked Conversations authors Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.  This wasn’t your usual high-tech group, so there were quite a few who knew of neither and by show of hands a majority seemed to not know that Scoble had decided…

Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch profiles a couple of new offerings from Pluck that are designed to help provide fuel to the citizen journalism fire and to make it easier for online publishers to get into the RSS game. I’m particularly intrigued by the effort to help enable community blogging, a move that could revitalize…

cgm: CGM, Blogs, and Politics Much of the innovation we’re seeing in the use and spread of consumer-generated media (CGM) draws from the political blog space. (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics) Over 100M Blogs Served (tags: Blogs) How To Instantly Get Onto Newsweek’s And The Washington Post’s Website (tags: Blogs PR)

The Center for Media Research said in their email briefing today that there’s evidence that more young people are interested in Social Security in the wake of the ongoing debate over how to strengthen the system for the future.  CMR wrote: President Bush’s campaign for social security reform has moved the debate to center stage….

Steve Rubel offers an interesting chart from Technorati, the blog search engine, that seems to show that most spikes in blog posting volume occur around political events. David Sifry also comments that "We see the largest number of posts each day between the hours of 7AM and noon Pacific time, meaning between 10AM and 3PM…

TechCrunch reviews the latest version of Attensa, an RSS reader that integrates with Outlook, and notes that: Attensa is aggresively adding features to compete with other readers and has an excellent product suite. However, some (including Jeff Nolan) have stopped using Attensa’s Outlook product because of reported difficulties in making these third party applications work…